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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Super pleased to see this out (and open access!). Moluag was clearly an important figure in Pictland, here we got to help the team who made such important discoveries at Moluag's monastery get the word on the street about the importance of Lismore and the new findings! tinyurl.com/5cb9vf3p
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A major monastic centre? Rethinking Lismore’s place in the ecclesiastical landscapes of early medieval Britain | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
A major monastic centre? Rethinking Lismore’s place in the ecclesiastical landscapes of early medieval Britain - Volume 100 Issue 413
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Aberdeen peeps - I'll be talking all things Picts and Rhynie at Aberdeen Waterstones on 2nd November - sign up here for the talk or a copy of the book (and talk!). Please share to all those who may be interested!
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We'll be talking at this on 3rd October! Not to be missed - get your tickets here: www.ticketsource.com/the-pictish-... image.png
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New NPixts T-shirt just landed - Turn it up a Notch! Based on one of our favourite symbols - the enigmatic notched rectangle! Get it at npixts.teemill.com, all profits go to Northern Picts research!
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Two new designs added to the NPixts Store: Uncivil Serpent and Pictish Bestiary And until midnight on Thursday 17th September, 10% off your order with the code TENOFF. NPixts merch store- all proceeds go to Northern Picts research! npixts.teemill.com
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Until midnight on Thursday 17th September, 10% off your order with the code TENOFF. NPixts merch store- all proceeds go to Northern Picts research! npixts.teemill.com
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Filming for BBC Digging for Britain yesterday- Burghead will feature in the new series!
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Our online Certificate of Archaeology is still accepting applications for study beginning in the next few weeks. www.abdn.ac.uk/study/underg...
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Certificate in Archaeology | Undergraduate Degrees | The University of Aberdeen
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
As part of an international symposium at the University of Aberdeen there are a small number of free tickets to two keynote lectures held on Sunday at 7pm on the Bayeux Tapestry and Early Medieval Hilltop Settlements. Use this link to secure a ticket: abdn.eventsair.com/sachsensympo...
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Sunday Public Engagement Registration
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We are now back at the labs and laying out finds to dry- here is just a small selection- all of these will be written up for a much richer view of Pictish Burghead and Pictish life than we have ever had before!!
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AnnieSAnderson @anniescottarch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
@northernpicts.bsky.social .. super happy about this opening. Come and join us
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Well the finds keep on coming at Burghead 2026! Two incredibly lovely pins from the upper and lower citadels of the fort! These may have been for women’s head coverings - 7th-8th century Pictish fashion!
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Absolutely incredible find today- a very substantial mortar stone from the floor layer of a building found next to the middle rampart of the fort at Burghead. Likely to be from an early phase of the fort- 7th century AD perhaps!!
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A great wee video from Graeme Roger (Wildbird) with short interviews from the Northern Picts team - a teaser for our open day on Saturday (10-4pm) and our community talk at Burghead Village Hall (7.30pm Friday evening!). vimeo.com/1219616126/1...
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Burghead dig interviews
This is "Burghead dig interviews" by Graeme Roger on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In the upper fort this year we’re focusing on a large building that dates to the 9th century AD. We had some lovely metalwork finds from last year, this year Graham has been uncovering lots of animal bone! Our talk is in the village hall Friday evening at 7.30: open day Saturday 10-4pm!
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
One of our trenches this year is across the middle rampart of Burghead Pictish fort. This is the least well surviving rampart on the ground but amazingly our team have found really well preserved midden deposits under a huge deposit of rampart collapse!
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
One of my favourite podcasts, Empire: World History pulls in over 1 million downloads every month. The show explores global history, and I’m delighted to say I got to speak about the Picts in the latest episode! open.spotify.com/episode/5I2m...
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386. The Picts: Scotland’s Tattooed Warriors (Ep 4)
Empire: World History · Episode
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Now it’s happening- a lovely iron arrowhead probably around 1200 years old. Found in the lower fort in the upper settlement layers of Burghead Pictish Fort. Found by Kalle one of our PhD students. Wowsers!
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New article out led by Sam Jones! An amazing palaeoenvironmental sequence from Loch Clunie onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Farming in the shadows of Rome: A multi‐proxy palaeoenvironmental record from Loch Clunie—Perthshire
Roman impacts on local society is a subject of international significance. Loch Clunie, Perthshire, lies only 5.4 km from Inchtuthil, the only Roman legionary fortress in Scotland, and contains two c...
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The big yellow trowel arrived at Burghead today! Starts next week! Keep 👀
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
There will be Free UK Shipping from Friday 31st July until midnight Sunday 2nd August. No code needed. All profits go to Northern Picts research
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Join the Northern Picts team- applications for British Acadmey three years postdoctoral positions are now open! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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Postdoctoral Fellowships
The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Great piece by the Guardian on the wonderful Moray coast with mentions of Burghead and the Pictish fort: www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...
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Why Scotland’s cinematic Moray coast made it a perfect location to shoot The Odyssey
‘Legends cling like barnacles to these shores,’ says our local writer, who reveals how the lore of these craggy cliffs and beaches resonates with the Homeric classic
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
East Lomond day 8. Today we had an amazing hearth made up of two querns (grinding stones for making flour) that had been broken up to make the kerbstones of a lovely rectangular hearth from the earlier phases of the site. Our team formed a fellowship of the querns to excavate the hearth.
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Well that was an amazing first full day at East Lomond. So so many finds for a first day- spindle whorls, Roman pottery, crucibles, and all sorts. And filming with Alice Roberts for her new Channel 4 series! Watch this space!!
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Tomorrow we begin the 2026 field season at East Lomond hillfort! Since 2022 we've uncovered an exceptional Pictish settlement sequence (3rd century–c.600 AD), with finds including weaponry, metalworking, a silver handpin, imported E-ware and gaming pieces. Daily updates 6-17 July
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
One of our students, Konrad, has been up in Shetland. The aim has been to 3D scan all of Shetland Museum and Archives Pictish painted pebbles using photogrammetry. The work has been funded by the Findlay Harris Dick prize at the University of Aberdeen. Thanks to Shetland Amenity Trust.
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Free UK Shipping from now until midnight Sunday, 5th July. No code needed. All profits go to Northern Picts research
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Our open day at East Lomond a week tomorrow!
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Can’t believe Scotland are up against a Rowie on the Moroccan side
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Day 3 #KingsSeat2026: A huge day! The rampart was far more complex than expected, with multiple charred timbers, intense burning and vitrified stone showing extremely high temperatures during its destruction. Dating samples taken, and finally evidence of occupation inside! 🔥🏺⛏️
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Fabulous second day of test pitting the southern enclosure of the Pictish hillfort at King’s Seat, Dunkeld. Although robbed out, two of our trenches show that the rampart was timber framed and had been extensively destroyed by fire with large burnt oak beams surviving
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Bigger and better than ever - the Annual Day of the Picts at Burghead will be on the 22nd of August this year. Get it in your diaries!
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Some serious new 3D printing kit in our new labs at the University of Aberdeen! Watch this space!
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We are looking forward to welcoming our new cohort of one year Master's (MSc) students to Aberdeen this Autumn! Not got your application in yet? Don’t panic, there’s still time! Check out our courses here: www.abdn.ac.uk/geosc.../deg...
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We are looking forward to welcoming our new cohort of one year Master's (MSc) students to Aberdeen this Autumn! Not got your application in yet? Don’t panic, there’s still time! Check out our courses here: www.abdn.ac.uk/geosciences/...
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Very pleased to say there is a new print run of the Rhynie monograph - but get your copies while you can as about a 1/3 or this second run is already sold! socantscot.org/rhynie
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Lovely obituary of Anna Ritchie: www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Anna Ritchie obituary
Archaeologist whose excavations in Orkney included Knap of Howar, with domestic buildings more than 5,000 years old
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Recently talked to Pete Kelly from the History Time: Unearthed podcast, about Rhynie, Tap o’Noth and recent work at Burghead. Hae a listen o this! Loving some of the comments too 🤣🤣🤣! Always an armchair expert or three!! 🤣 m.youtube.com/watch?v=XTwO...
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
If you are in the Cardiff area next week - don't forget I'll be giving a British Academy lecture on our work at Burghead! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectu...
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Come join our team as our new Zooarchaeology research technician in our shiny new labs!! Closing date: 25/5/2026 www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/tech...
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Technician (GEO488T) | University of Aberdeen
We are seeking a specialist in the identification and analysis of vertebrate faunal skeletal (non-human mammalian) remains to join our new (AHRC) RICHeS-funded laboratory here in Aberdeen as a Researc...
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
New lines added to NPixts Store: The Great Wave of Pictavia and the Great Flood! And this weekend - all orders on the NPixt merch store get free UK shipping till Monday midnight! Get yourself some cool Pictish merch and support the Northern Picts project do more research! npixts.teemill.com
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This weekend: Big Spring Freepost. All orders on the NPixt merch store get free UK shipping Friday-Monday midnight! Get yourself some cool Pictish merch and support the Northern Picts project do more research! What a deal! npixts.teemill.com
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
So between our Birlinn volumes King in the North and Picts: Scourge of Rome, Rulers of the North, there has been almost 12,000 books sold to date! Not bad for the old Picts!
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Did you know that our Alumni Postgraduate Scholarship caps tuition fees at just £7,000 for Aberdeen graduates www.abdn.ac.uk/study/fundin... • MSc Archaeology / MSc Archaeology of the North/ Vikings • MSc Osteoarchaeology • MSc Cultural Heritage • MSc Biomolecular Archaeology
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
British Academy postdoctoral fellowships for the Arts and Humanities. Get in touch if you want to explore projects with us at Aberdeen! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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Postdoctoral Fellowships
The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Free UK post and 10% off for today only on the NPixts merch store! All profits go to research projects on the Picts! use the EARTH10 code at checkout. npixts.teemill.com/collection/m...
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
For all our Danish followers out there - an article in the Danish magazine Historie on Rhynie! historienet.dk/kultur/arkae...
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Arkæologer har fundet glemt kongelig magtbase: Stammer fra særligt keltisk folkefærd
I en stille landsby har arkæologer arbejdet på et projekt i ti år. Deres fund vækker opsigt, fordi de bringer os tættere på det blåmalede folkefærd picterne.
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